Promoting Helicopter Services in India

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Content

• Background
• What is a hub airport?
• Advantages
• Impediments

Details

• 4th Heli-India Summit 2022 with the theme ‘Helicopters for Last Mile Connectivity’ at Sher-e Kashmir International Conference Centre, Srinagar.

Multifarious Roles of Helicopters:

• Providing Urban Connectivity
• Emergency Medical care
• Disaster Management during floods
• Rescue operations
• Infrastructure development: For e.g. J&K has set an example of the best use of Heli services when it erected transmission lines and towers using heli-cranes (sky cranes) on the Peer Panjal mountain ranges.

Other initiatives launched in recent times to promote Helicopter sector:

• UDAN 5.1
• HeliSewa Portal – it is an online portal being used by all operators for obtaining landing permissions to helipads, and it also is creating a database of helipads in the country.
• HeliDisha: It is a document that has been prepared as guidance material to state government administration to effectively and safely support civil helicopter operations.
• Helicopter Accelerator Cell: It is fully active in resolving helicopter issues and the advisory group of industry representatives is helping identify problem areas.

Fractional Ownership Model:

• Released in Oct 2022
• It will lower the barrier on the cost of acquisition of helicopters and aeroplanes through pooled capital by multiple owners.
• This will allow companies and individuals to minimize their capital outflow by sharing the purchase cost, reducing their exposure to risks and making it financially easier to run a NSOP business (Non-scheduled Operator’s Permit Business)
• Fractional Ownership Model has the potential to energize the NSOP segment by demonstrating ownership of aircraft and it can be a driver to boost the number of aircraft existing in the NSOP industry.